Future Tribes: Itarations

After finding inspirations and making my mood board, I start by deciding what post should my iterations be in. I need to make a post that shows all of their clothes without arms or legs blocking it but also shows the character's traits and personality. I start off with just a stick man before going into more solid shapes.

Pose ideas 1

After I draft out some poses I make a more solid silhouette of the iteration. I got feedback later that my sketch is too dynamic and need to be toned down, so I changed and look up a normal standing pose. I think it was too stiff so I relies of the anatomy for the shape of the iterations.

Pose ideas 1

Making correct proportion of the character base

Designs and silhouettes

Because I already set certain themes I want to use for my characters so I made only one body base for the clothes to be put on. The idea was to make a graceful yet strong Akha tribe Khon dancer. I started with a black blocked out body base and create simple shapes and black silhouettes of the clothing with Lasso tool before adding lighter colour to create more detail.

First iterations: 20 characters

I wasn't sure of what to do at first and the first 10 characters acted as a base/experiment than an actual idea. Some of it are nice and I did use them to develop further on other designs.

Second iterations: 20 characters

I changed up my pose on the 10 later of half of my second batch to create new silhouettes and prevent myself from art block. I really love the multiple robotic hands design a lot and it did end up as one of my top 5.

Thrid iterations: 10 characters

My last one was not as successful but I experiment more on the futuristic side of the clothing as I was focusing a lot more on the culture part in the last two sheets.

Final Iteration Sheet

50 iterations of Akhan Khon dancer

I am quite proud of the iteration sheet. The process sucks a lot of energy out of me and I was struggling with how to make unique silhouettes shapes. As a first try at making this many characters, it's not as bad as I thought and is fun in a way.